A Topic of Moral Theology

Contumacy

The obstinacy a censure presupposes: the warning, the contempt that must be shown, and when contumacy ceases.

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defying the church's warning · obstinacy (ed.)

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In the manuals

Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology, On Ecclesiastical Penalties, Second Book. On Ecclesiast…, Question One. On Censures …, Article One. On the Nature of Censure., n. 8 — 8. Notion of censure. A censure is a medicinal penalty by which the use of certain spiritual goods is taken away by the Church from a delinquent and contumacious Christian. Therefore two things are needed for incurring a… Read in context →

Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology, On Ecclesiastical Penalties, Second Book. On Ecclesiast…, Question One. On Censures …, Article Four. On the Conditions Required for Incurring Censure., n. 22 — 22. Committed with contumacy: for censures have been instituted for breaking contumacy against the power of the Church threatening the penalty. But he is judged to be contumacious who knows that something is prohibited b… Read in context →

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. II, Bk. IV, Tr. II, Diss. II, Pt. I, Sect. I, Ch. I, Multiplication, and Division of Censure, n. 862 — I. Notion. Censure is a penalty by which a baptized man, delinquent and contumacious, is deprived of certain spiritual goods or goods annexed to spiritual things, until, withdrawing from contumacy, he is absolved (canon … Read in context →

Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology

Vol. II, On Ecclesiastical Censures, nn. 1144 & 1145 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume II

Slater, Cases II, Censures, Case 4. Countenancing a Duel, n. ¶1 — Caia came for confession to Paul, a missionary priest in England, to whom she disclosed that in the preceding year in Italy she had stood by at a duel in order to encourage a friend fighting a duel. Caia further said tha… Read in context →

Treated under the broader heading Censures in General — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Vermeersch, On Forbidden Books · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology and 4 more — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)